Jonathan Berry, BYU Student Still Missing; Search Called Off
Twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Berry is still missing and was last seen by his 
roommates at their apartment May 31st. Jonathan Berry’s father is in a predicament as the authorities have called off the search.
The father of a BYU student who’s been missing for a week says he’s in a “muddle,” and has no idea where to turn now that authorities have called off the search. (KSL5-TV)
The Provo Police Department’s missing persons unit is now in charge.
Canyon search off for hiker
Authorities found a bike belonging to the lost Brigham Young University student Thursday above the Provo Temple at the base of Rock Canyon. Authorities suspended their search over the weekend because the number of weekend hikers in the canyon made it difficult for tracking dogs to pick up Berry’s scent.
David and Michelle Berry headed to Provo upon hearing their son was missing. The couple returned to their Grand Junction home Monday after authorities called off the search for Berry and turned over the case to the Provo Police Department’s missing persons unit. Their four other children joined them. “We have no idea what happened,” David Berry said.
The family is in a quandary as to what to do next.
David Berry said he appreciates the efforts of authorities and search and rescue teams to track down his son and find clues about the missing man’s whereabouts, however fruitless.
“He’s not in that canyon,” he said. “We are totally at a dead end.”
He’s not sure where the search will go from here.
“We have no ideas,” David Berry said. “I’m in a muddle right now.”
But he’s sure of his son.
“If you had a kid you were proud of, he’s been one of them,” he said. (GJ Sentinel)
BYU student still missing
After nearly five days, the search for BYU student Jonathan Berry, from Grand Junction, Colo., was officially closed Monday (June 5, 2006), said captain Rick Healey of the Provo Police Department.
The case has been turned over to a missing person’s detective within the Provo Police Department, Healey said.
The decision to conclude official search efforts, which were focused on the Rock Canyon area, was reached after members of official search and rescue teams found nothing after combing the area with four-wheelers, cadaver dogs and a helicopter.
I am so sad to hear this news…We used to love to listen to Johnathan play the cello when he was a student of the Grand Junction orchrastra. He is a fine young man and if somthing has happened to him then this is a major tragedy that must be resolved whatever the cost. His family are very fine people and he is a wonderful and talented young man. It is very important for closure for all of his family and friends. Where is Johnathan Berry?
Comment by Shelly Martin | July 3, 2006
Jonathan was one of my best friends. Though I live 20000 miles away from him, we were closer friends than people who live together. I refuse to believe that he is missing! He is out there somewhere! I appeal to the police, to the authorities, do not give up searching!
Comment by Valeriya Lozeva, Bulgaria | October 22, 2006